📖 Definitions of "Happy"
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A happy event, thing, person, etc.
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Preceded by the: happy people as a group.
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Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.
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Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.
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Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous.
"Music makes me feel happy."
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Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.
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Content, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
"Are you happy to pay me back by the end of the week?"
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(Of acts, speech, etc.) Appropriate, apt, felicitous.
"a happy coincidence"
🔄 Synonyms of "Happy"
26 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| halcyonnoun | (figurative) Calm, undisturbed, peaceful, serene. |
| contentnoun | Satisfied, pleased, contented. |
| brightnoun | Emitting much light; visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, radiant. |
| felicitous | Appropriate, apt, fitting. |
| riant | Mirthful, cheerful, smiling, light-hearted. |
| expansive | Comprehensive in scope or extent. |
| elysiannoun | Blissful, happy, heavenly |
| joyful | Feeling or causing joy. |
| pleased | Happy, content. |
| euphoricnoun | Feeling great well-being or elation or intense happiness; characterized by euphoria |
| joyous | Full of joy; happy. |
| prosperous | Well off; affluent. |
| blissful | Extremely happy; full of joy; experiencing, indicating, causing, or characterized by bliss. |
| blessednoun | Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing. |
| goldennoun | Made of, or relating to, gold. |
| gladverb | Pleased; happy; gratified. |
| fortunate | Happening by good luck or favorable chance. |
| euphoriantnoun | A drug, stimulus, or other agent that produces feelings of euphoria. |
| paradisal | Like paradise; paradisiacal. |
| paradisiac | Of or like Paradise; heavenly, delightful. |
| contented | Satisfied. |
| paradisaical | Of or relating to paradise (or heaven). |
| paradisial | paradisiacal |
| paradisiacal | Of or resembling paradise. |
| well-chosen | well expressed and to the point |
↔️ Antonyms of "Happy"
Words with the opposite meaning.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| sadverb | Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful. |
| distressed | Anxious or uneasy. |
| unhappynoun | Not happy; sad. |
| dysphoricnoun | Pertaining to dysphoria, or of being in a state of dysphoria. |
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Happy"
Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| pleasedverb | Happy, content. |
| blissful | Extremely happy; full of joy; experiencing, indicating, causing, or characterized by bliss. |
| content | Satisfied, pleased, contented. |
| glad | Pleased; happy; gratified. |
| contentedverb | Satisfied. |
| joyful | Feeling or causing joy. |
| euphoric | Feeling great well-being or elation or intense happiness; characterized by euphoria |
| joyous | Full of joy; happy. |
| fortunate | Happening by good luck or favorable chance. |
| riant | Mirthful, cheerful, smiling, light-hearted. |
| prosperous | Well off; affluent. |
| euphoriant | Producing euphoria. |
| felicitous | Appropriate, apt, fitting. |
| expansive | Comprehensive in scope or extent. |
| laughingverb | (intransitive) To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter. |
| blessednoun | Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing. |
| paradisial | paradisiacal |
| paradisiac | Of or like Paradise; heavenly, delightful. |
| paradisiacal | Of or resembling paradise. |
| paradisaical | Of or relating to paradise (or heaven). |
⚡ Words Strongly Associated with "Happy"
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🎨 Adjectives for "Happy"
Popular adjectives used to describe this word in books.
🏷️ Nouns for "Happy"
Common nouns this word is used to describe.
📝 Common Phrases with "Happy"
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